say in the state of california in the late 1970s, they decided we're not going to pay our property taxes and fund our schools, and that was so they could get everybody to be stupid enough to vote republicans. americans need toad indicate themselves, and i mean us, i mean me when i say something. there are times when americans really need to get that we are the luckiest people in the world even though our government is a little bit awry -- a little bit awry, it's a broken. >> stephanie: yes, i agree. sue in michigan. >> caller: i just wanted to say what jim said about the shiite muslims, and it's a point he has made a few times. as a shee it muslim myself, i have to correct you on something. it's not this extremism that is coming out of the religion -- it's not from the shiite it's from the sunni sect, a specific part of the sunni sect. it's the [ inaudible ]. they fill in the vacuums basically. everybody has been saying before me. it's economics and the conditions they live in and in that region of the world, people you know -- religion is so important to them. so if they have somebody t